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A few days ago, a reader of this blog and a former student asked me to explain the origin of the name Jehovah. I always welcome questions from readers and when a question is of general interest, I try to write a post and provide an answer that will benefit the general public.
First, let me remind readers that I have already written several posts on the divine name. The following posts deal with the name of God:
Pronouncing the Divine Name – Part 1
Pronouncing the Divine Name – Part 2
Pronouncing the Divine Name – Part 3
Pronouncing the Divine Name: An Explanation
The name Jehovah is not the real name of God. Let me explain. The word Jehovah, a popular English name used by Christians to identify the God of the Old Testament, was not used until after 1278 A.D.
In the Hebrew Bible, the name of God is expressed by four consonants: YHWH. These four consonants are also known in academic circles as the Tetragrammaton. The name of God was revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai:
13 Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?"
14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
15 God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you': this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:13-15 RSV).
When God sent Moses back to Egypt to bring the people out of their oppression, God told Moses: "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The LORD has sent me to you': this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). In Hebrew the name "the LORD" is YHWH.
Over the centuries, the Jewish community has avoided using or pronouncing the divine name in public. Thus, when reading the name of God in Hebrew, the Masoretes wrote the four consonants YHWH and inserted the vowels of the Hebrew word Adonai, a word that means "the Lord."
The name Jehovah is a hybrid name. The name was formed by the use of the Tetragrammaton YHWH with the vowels of Adonai and the result was YeHoWaH. This hybrid name became the basis for the Latinized name Jehovah.
The name Jehovah was not known until sometime after 1278 when a Dominican monk by the name of Raymundus Martini, a Spaniard, first used it in his book Pugeo Fidei. The name Jehovah appeared in English when William Tyndale translated the book of Moses in 1530. Thus, the name Jehovah is an artificial creation that was not used until the Middle Ages. It does not reflect an accurate rendering of the divine name in the Hebrew Bible and its use should be avoided.
Most Christian Bibles today follow the example of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, and of the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible by Jerome. The Septuagint translated the Tetragrammaton YHWH by Kurios, "Lord" and the Vulgate rendered the divine name as Dominus, "Lord."
The name Jehovah appears in the King James Bible in four places: Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; and Isaiah 26:4. The poetic form of the name, Yah (or Jah in the KJV) appears in Psalm 68:4. The divine name appears in several passages in the Bible compound with other words: "Jehovahjireh" (Genesis 22:14 KJV), "Jehovahnissi" (Exodus 17:15 KJV), and "Jehovahshalom" (Judges 6:24 KJV).
Most modern English translations follow orthodox Jewish tradition and avoid using the divine name. Instead, these translations substitute the word "the LORD" for the name Yahweh. The following are the usages of the divine name in most English Bibles:
1. The word "God" translates the Hebrew name Elohim.
2. The word "GOD" translates the divine name Yahweh.
3. The word "Lord" translates the Hebrew word Adonai.
4. The Word "LORD" translates the divine name Yahweh.
I respect my Jewish readers who refrain from using the divine name as a way of honoring God. This reluctance to use the divine name reflects their love and reverence for God and a recognition of the holiness of God's name. Instead of using the divine name, they use "Adonai," and "Hashem," a Hebrew word meaning "The Name."
As a Christian, however, I believe that this reluctance to pronounce the divine name goes contrary to God's own wishes. God said to Moses:
"Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation (Exodus 3:15 HCSB).
God clearly tells Moses that he wants to be remembered forever by his name. However, if we do not call God by his name, how can people know him by his name?
The Psalmist wrote: "Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. His name is Yahweh." (Psalm 68:4 HCSB).
The Psalmist also wrote: "Proclaim with me the greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together (Psalm 34:3 NJB).
To sing praises to God's name and to acclaim his name requires the worshiper to know God's name and to use it and pronounce his name aloud.
The prophet Joel wrote: "Everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved" (Joel 2:32 HCSB). However, how can people call upon the name of God when the name of God is not used?
Christians should avoid using the name Jehovah because it does not provide an accurate translation of the Hebrew name for God. And, although I am going against the majority of Biblical scholars on this issue, I believe we should take seriously God's desire that he wants to be remembered forever by his name.
If Christians and Jews are to use the divine name, it must be done so with reverence, for we must remember God's own admonition: "You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name" (Exodus 20:7 NJB).
NOTE: For other studies on the name of the God of the Bible, read my post Studies on the Name of God.
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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When we were on holiday recently we stopped at Paulpietersburg to visit my grandfather's grave. It is unmarked, but I know where it is, because back in 1977, when we were living in Utrecht, we went with my mother to Paulpietersburg. When we got there we had lunch in the hotel. Then we went to the municipal offices, and asked if they had a plan of the graves in the cemetery, and the man who was probably the parks and gardens department came along to the cemetery with us, bringing the town traffic cop with him, and together we located the grave of my grandfather, Percy Wynn Hayes. He was buried next to Dr Lipscomb, who had treated him in his last illness, and was a great buddy of his, coming from Devon. Mum said that when they came for his funeral, they said he and a lot of old men used to meet and put their stamp collections together. We returned via Bivane and Viljoenspos, after going up the mountain to look at the Dumbe mine. We asked to look at the staff records, but the office was closed by the time we got there.
Percy Hayes died on 6 May 1948, and I remember travelling to his funeral from Ingogo via Utrecht and Vryheid. I was 7 years old at the time. We asked about the location of his grave nearly 30 years later, and that seemed an impossibly long time ago. Yet 1977 is now longer ago than 1948 was back then.
Paulpietersburg is at the foot of the Dumbe mountain, and Percy Hayes was mine secretary of the Dumbe Colliery there. In earlier years, between the Anglo-Boer War and the Second World War, he had been a stockbroker in Johannesburg. There is more information about him on our Family Wiki here.
One of the minor mysteries of this branch of the family is where the name Wynn came from.
My mother told me it was an old family name, and very important. My father, Frank Hayes, and his sisters Vera and Doreen all had Wynn as a middle name. So did Percy — when he died. My father, when he died in 1989, had even taken to hyphenating it, and called himself Frank Wynn-Hayes.
But on his birth certificate Percy Hayes is listed as plain Percy Hayes. He was born in Bedminster, Bristol, England on 4 August 1874, and I've been looking, so far without success, for his baptism in Bedminster or Bristol churches. Not that it will help much, because English Anglican baptism registers, unlike South African ones, do not record the names of the sponsors (godparents). I wonder if one of his godparents might have been named Wynn, or if it was someone he had encountered whom he particularly admired. Certainly we have not discovered any earlier member of the family who bears that name. He grew up in Axbridge, Somerset, where his parents ran the Red Lion Hotel, and came to South Africa shortly before the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
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Looking back to when Ronald Reagan, patron saint of Republicanism, favored gun control
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Movie review: Suarez, Ugarte performances keep 'Julieta' afloat
The ghost of Douglas Sirk laps at every corner of "Julieta," Pedro Almodovar's mother-daughter sudser in which love and martyrdom tragically clash. It's a bold move for the Spanish provocateur, veering from his usual envelope pushing for a more mainstream approach that borders on homage. And for the most part it works. But there is a hint of disappointment in a rare failure by the director to wow and surprise.
In many ways, it feels like he's under the influence of Todd Haynes, whose odes to Sirk ("Carol" and "Far from Heaven") are legendary, albeit box-office duds. Like Haynes, Almodovar is full of nostalgia for 1950s melodramas, which Sirk made an art form with Technicolor classics like "All that Heaven Allows" and "Magnificent Obsession." The beautifully shot, impeccably acted "Julieta" bears all the Sirk hallmarks, beginning with a gorgeous leading lady in a romantic entanglement that leaves her at odds with her offspring.
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Few things speak of the cycle of creation and destruction like the insertion of a beautiful bonbon into the alimentary canal. Like divine feats of gastronomical ingenuity, objects from our rituals, beautifully designed packages and even words upon which we have slaved and sweated, end up so often as detritus, heaped in landfills for later generations of archaeologists to ponder.
To help make this point and raise other questions with our viewers, I have selected works by three of the top conceptual artists in the field of contemporary Japanese ceramics, all on loan from Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz. In our contemporary ceramics case, located on the lobby level of the Pavilion for Japanese Art, I've placed a sculpture by Akiyama Yo with stacks of tea bowls crushed under the weight of compacted clay. One imagines this mangled stack to resemble the findings of archaeologists digging now in Kyoto, as they unearth the remains of seventeenth-century kilns. Hoshino Satoru's work, by contrast, is a precious tea bowl, which a tea practitioner would carefully lift to inspect and remark upon before drinking from it during the course of a tea ceremony. If not for the good outcome from the kiln, Hoshino's bowl might be found generations later in the same form depicted in Akiyama's sculpture!
Akiyama Yo (born 1953) and Hoshino Satoru (born 1945) are both members of Sodeisha (the "crawling through the mud" group), whose members in the 1950s first created ceramic sculpture in Japan. Both love to grapple with issues of creation and destruction, as well as peering beneath the surface to see what exists within. Akiyama does this by burning and tearing his potted clay, while Hoshino punches and pinches to find the quality of the material beyond the facade.
Apparently a woman of formidable strength, which I have to assume after trying to pick up her work, Mishima Kimiyo (born 1932) makes ceramic sculpture using silkscreen as a featured technique. She wishes to pry from her audience the understanding that our trash is filling the world, and if not dealt with soon, it will come to represent us to future generations. So, she presents trash from our food packages and newspapers as a potential contemporary icon.
Hollis Goodall, Curator, Japanese Art


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On Being a Mindful Voter
Posted by The Situationist Staff on June 3, 2008
Our intense scrutiny of the presidential candidates has produced a relentless stream of questions, some thoughtful and relevant, others spectacularly irrelevant and even embarrassing: Why are you not more likable, Hillary? How good a Christian can he be with the name Hussein?
With our focus solely on the candidates, however, we have neglected to examine the other powerful determinant of the election: the state of our own minds. And yet we know that the voter's mind, the very thing doing the questioning, probing and judging, is itself prone to limitations no less profound than those of the candidates themselves.
Keeping one's own mind "in mind" and being aware of its limitations is the first step toward making a conscious choice of who is best for us, the country and the world.
Human minds have a remarkable capability for self-reflection — the envy of every chimpanzee. This fanciest bell and whistle of the brain bestows on us the ability to consciously look into our own mind, recognize its contents, report on it and even change it.
As remarkable as this ability is, however, it tends to mask the fact that we are nonetheless unaware of the vast majority of our minds' work.
It keeps us from knowing, and therefore from accepting, that the reasons we offer for our choices may not actually be driving those choices. This blindness should not be underestimated, because it is always accompanied by an insidious if honest denial of facts.
The mind sciences tell us much about the invisible mental gymnastics that end up dictating what we like and dislike, what we believe to be true and not, what drives us toward particular people and their ideologies.
My colleagues and I have posed two kinds of questions to understand these two sides of the mind, the conscious and the less conscious. Measuring the conscious side is familiar, tried and true. In the context of race, we ask, "Whom do you like? Whom will you vote for? Why?"
The other question is not only unfamiliar, it isn't a question at all. To measure race preferences that may be less conscious, we measure the speed and accuracy of the mind at work. How quickly and how accurately do we — can we — perform the simple task of associating black and white with both good and bad? In the gender case, do we associate female or male more easily with "commander-in-chief"?
Such tests do not seek a reasoned answer but an automatic one, a response we form without "thinking." From such responses we can derive an estimate of our less-conscious likes and dislikes, called automatic preferences. If the results of the two tests agree; that is, if you say you prefer black and you show the same level of preference for black on the automatic test, the two are boringly consistent.
But in ordinary people like me, we often don't see consistency. Rather we see disparities between what we say and what we reveal. I, for example, report a seemingly genuine attitude of equal liking for black and white, but the automatic test reveals that I have a preference for white over black (as do the majority of whites and Asians in the United States and at least a third of African-Americans). Likewise, although I might express and even have an automatic preference for women, I struggle more than I'd like when I am asked to associate "female" with commander-in-chief.
Such disparity tells me that my spoken preference and beliefs, my intended egalitarian values are out of sync with my less explicit, less conscious preference for white (or for a male leader).
It tells me that I may not be fully aware of who I am or wish to be. What I take away from such a fracture in my own mind is a skepticism that I am color-blind or that I can look past gender to the truly competent candidate. Without awareness of the slippage in my own mind, I am likely to believe that all the relevant data are embedded in the candidates, not in me.
* * *
In the Democratic primaries, we have been given two candidates who represent what was unthinkable in any previous election. Both represent what it means to be American in the broadest, most optimistic sense possible.
One represents the gender of half the people of this country and half the people of the world, but who after 232 years of independence is the first viable female candidate for president.
We also have a candidate who captures another aspect of a changing America: a person with parents from two continents, who is both black and white, from two cultures, rich and poor, with their own languages and religions.
But wait, we have a third candidate, whose demographics represent the familiar — a white, Southern male candidate — but whose actions reflect virtues so powerful that we might indeed set aside the strengths of the first two.
Everything that is tribal and ignorant about us should move us away from them. And that's the mind's natural, unexamined inclination. But I see millions taking these candidates seriously. The crossing over is thrilling to watch. Black, male and young, casting for Clinton. Women, white and elderly, voting for Obama. Northerners, the rich supporting Edwards.
These voters have overcome the easy inclination to go with the familiar past. They have broken a tribal cord that bound their predecessors. Their minds have seen through those candidates who create false fears of the enemy outside, who even now fail to recognize what is clearly a futile and unjust war, who lie about taxes, who hold religious beliefs contradictory to physical reality.
* * *
The next election will again be determined not by Democrats or Republicans but by the sizable bloc of independents. Independents cannot be proud of the opportunities they missed four and eight years ago.
But now, there's a new moment. From the research evidence, I know that to support any of the three Democratic candidates will not come easily. They demand that you give up a preference for the status quo, for what looks familiar, for what sounds superficially "presidential."
* * *
If that tribal preference is at all attractive, any of the throwbacks on the Republican slate will do.
But if Americans are ready to do what they have occasionally done before . . . the time to cast a similar vote is 2008.
Hillary, Barack and John, as much as we are testing them, are testing us.
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To read the entire editorial, click here. To visit the Project Implicit website and find out more about implicit associations, click here. To review previous Situationist posts discussing implicit associations click on the "Implicit Associations" category in the right margin or, for a list of such posts, click here.
For a sample of previous posts examining situational elements of voting or, specifically, the 2008 presidential election, see "Implicit Associations in the 2008 Presidential Election," "Lopez-Torres, Justice Scalia, and the Situation of Elections," "Heart Brain or Wallet?" "Your Brain on Politics," "Al Gore – The Situationist" and "Irrelevant Third Options in Presidential Campaigns."
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave up on its plan to sue piracy out of existence years ago. Instead of mass-copyright lawsuits, the group is embracing a mass-takedown strategy, sending notices to both infringing sites and the sites that link to them, such as Google. These notices are issued constantly and involve thousands of URLs that the RIAA wants taken down. It has become a giant-sized game of whack-a-mole and the record industry group is seriously tired of it.
The RIAA put a blog post up today complaining that it sent 20 million takedown notices to Google last year. The group has sent almost the same number to the infringing sites themselves. Nevertheless, pirated content keeps appearing in Google searches, often on the same websites. Brad Buckles, an RIAA VP, writes in today's post:
Every day produces more results and there is no end in sight. Importantly, the targets of our notices don't even pretend to be innovators constructing new and better ways to legally enjoy music—they have simply created business models that allow them to profit from giving someone else's property away for free. So while 20 million might sound impressive, the problem we face with illegal downloading on the Internet is immeasurably larger. And that is just for music.
Buckles goes on to suggest that Google doesn't do anything to punish pirate sites, even when it receives hundreds of notices about a site. He even discusses the idea that the RIAA needs to send a full URL, calling it a "controversial interpretation" of copyright law by a tech company.
We are using a bucket to deal with an ocean of illegal downloading. Under a controversial interpretation by search engines, takedown notices must be directed at specific links to specific sound recordings and do nothing to stop the same files from being reposted as fast as they are removed.
It is certainly fair for search engines to say that they have no way of knowing whether a particular link on a specific site represents an illegal copy or not. Perhaps it's fair for them to make that same claim at the second notice. But what about after a thousand notices for the same song on the same site? Isn't it simply logical and fair at some point to conclude that such links are infringing without requiring content owners to keep expending time and resources to have the link taken down?
The post appears to be an opening shot as Congress prepares to review copyright law and the DMCA. "Some aspects of it no longer work," writes Buckles, but it isn't quite clear from this post how the group would like it to operate. In what seems to be a reference to the "six strikes" system, Buckles notes that "voluntary initiatives" with ISPs, payment processors, and advertisers are a good template.
The 20 million number is based on Google's own self-reporting about the RIAA in its annual transparency report. On May 20 alone, for instance, RIAA member companies sent 17 separate takedown notices to Google, with thousands of URLs in each notice. Eight of the notices had more than 10,000 links each.


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American Meb Keflezighi wins Boston Marathon
BOSTON - "The Star-Spangled Banner" played over Boylston Street in honor of an American winner of the Boston Marathon.
One year after a bombing there killed three people and left more than 260 injured, Meb Keflezighi added Boston to a resume that includes the New York City Marathon title in 2009 and a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics.
Running just two weeks before his 39th birthday, he had the names of the 2013 bombing victims on his bib.
"At the end, I just kept thinking, 'Boston Strong. Boston Strong,'" he said. "I was thinking 'Give everything you have. If you get beat, that's it.'"
Keflezighi completed the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to the finish on Boylston Street in Boston's Back Bay on Monday in a personal-best 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37 seconds. He held off Kenya's Wilson Chebet, who finished 11 seconds behind.
Keflezighi went out early and built a big lead. But he was looking over his shoulder several times as Chebet closed the gap over the final two miles. After realizing he wouldn't be caught, Keflezighi raised his sunglasses, began pumping his right fist and made the sign of the cross. He broke into tears after crossing the finish line, then draped himself in the American flag.
No U.S. runner had won the race since Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach took the women's title in 1985. The last American man to win was Greg Meyer in 1983. Meyer and Keflezighi embraced after the race.
"I'm blessed to be an American and God bless America and God bless Boston for this special day," Keflezighi said.
Rita Jeptoo of Kenya successfully defended the women's title she said she could not enjoy a year ago.
Jeptoo finished in a course-record 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds. She is a three-time Boston Marathon champion, having also won in 2006.
"I came here to support the people in Boston and show them that we are here together," she said. "I decided to support them and show them we are here together."
Jeptoo broke away from a group of five runners at the 23-mile mark. Buzunesh Deba of Ethiopia finished second in 2:19:59. Countrywoman Mare Dibaba was third at 2:19:52. All three women came in under the previous course record.
American Shalane Flanagan, who went to high school in nearby Marblehead, finished seventh after leading for more than half the race. She gambled by setting the early pace, but fell back on the Newton Hills about 21 miles into the race.
"It does mean a lot to be that my city was proud of me," she said. "I'm proud of how I ran. I don't wish I was it was easier. I wish I was better."
After breaking a 27-year American drought at the New York marathon, Keflezighi contemplated retiring after the 2012 NYC Marathon. But that race was canceled because of Superstorm Sandy, and he pulled out of the Boston Marathon last April because of injury. He watched the race from the stands at the finish line, but said he left about five minutes before the bombs went off.
He was the first American to medal in an Olympic marathon since Frank Shorter won gold in 1972 and silver in 1976. His 2009 New York victory broke a 27-year American drought there.
Another American, Tatyana McFadden, celebrated her 25th birthday Monday by winning the women's wheelchair race for the second straight year. She was timed in in 1 hour, 35 minutes, 6 seconds.
McFadden was born in Russia and lived in an orphanage as a child before starring at the University of Illinois. She also won the 2013 NYC Marathon women's wheelchair race after taking the titles in Boston, London and Chicago last year.
Ernst van Dyk of South Africa won the men's wheelchair division for a record 10th time. The 41-year-old crossed in 1 hour, 20 minutes, 36 seconds.
Van Dyk holds the record for most all-categories Boston Marathon wins. This was his first win at this race since 2010.
Last year's men's champion, Lelisa Desisa, did not finish this year's race, and had to be picked up by a van about 21 miles into the event.
Marathon officials said 35,755 runners registered for the race, with 32,408 unofficial starters. The field included just less than 5,000 runners who were not able to finish last year and accepted invitations to return this year.
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Three students from Saranac Elementary School are part of a locally touring performance of "Charlotte's Web," which will make a stop at the Saranac High School auditorium Friday.
Allison Hamilton, 10, Faith Guernsey, 11 and Noah Guernsey, 9, are cast members of the production presented by Thebes Players of the Lowell Area Arts Council with Laura Leasure as director. The trio answered a casting call and have been rehearsing four days each week following Jan. 1 with students from Murray Lake Elementary School, Lowell Middle School, Alto Elementary School, Cherry Creek Elementary School and Forest Hills Central Middle School.
Hamilton, who plays the role of Fern, said she is excited to see Saranac community members in the audience and to be a part of "Charlotte's Web."
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The Guernsey siblings also said they are looking forward to performing. Both play the part of sheep, and Noah Guernsey also plays an uncle.
"I loved the book so much and I watched the movie ... and I'm very dramatic," said Faith Guernsey about why she decided to audition for the production.
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"I like it because I have to do two kinds of emotions (with my character)," said Noah Guernsey.
Leasure said she is excited for the audience to see the students and their talent on stage, which can show how theater can be fun and for every age.
"They're all doing a very good job," she said of the students.
Leasure added she is happy to showcase "Charlotte's Web," because she loves the story and it is such a classic tale children and adults know through the book and the film. In addition, she said she is looking forward to having a public performance at Saranac High School because she feels it is underused and has top-notch sound and lighting.
"I can't wait to be there," she added. "I think you'll have a better quality experience."
The play is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tickets to the performance are at $1 at the door. Saranac High School is located at 150 Pleasant St.
For more information about the Lowell Area Arts Council, visit www.lowellartscouncil.org.
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Using the fantastic and flexible Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme and its showcase template front page and slider? Wish the showcase slider would slide automatically? I've found the answer.
The Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme features a pseudo-static front page template called "showcase." When set as the "home" page template with the blog as "blog," you have the option to add a slider with sticky posts. Add another and it automatically converts to a slider. Add a featured post image and your slider becomes highly visual.
By default, the slider must be changed manually by the visitor by clicking the "dots" over the right top section of the slider. In theory, this is preferred in order to meet some government laws for accessible websites where nothing should move, jump, shake, rattle, or roll without the action being initiated by the user. Regardless of the access laws, most people want the slider to advance automatically.
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In a perfect world, you would copy the
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head HTML section of the template file. For long time protection of the script and the Theme, this is the "right" way to add the auto-advance option.
Kevin came up with a simpler and faster way which works great if you trust yourself or your client not to mess with things. NOTE: This will not work on WordPress.com sites.
Instead of adding the the JavaScript to the
header.php or other template file, paste the JavaScript into a text widget in the Showcase sidebar with no title. The Showcase page template on the Twenty-Eleven Theme can display different content than what is found on the main sidebars, thus restricting the JavaScript from loading on every page, just on the front page where it is needed.
For posterity, the script for auto-advancing the Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme Slider is:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> // Auto-advance the Twenty-Eleven Showcase slider // by Kevin Deldycke http://kevin.deldycke.com/2011/12/auto-advance-wordpress-twentyeleven-showcase-slides/ // Source: http://pastebin.com/s6JEthVi jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var change_every = 5; // The number of seconds that the slider will auto-advance in var current = 1; function auto_advance(){ if(current == -1) return false; jQuery('.feature-slider a').eq(current % jQuery('.feature-slider a').length).trigger('click', [true]); current++; }; setInterval(function(){auto_advance()}, change_every * 1000); }); </script>
To change the interval, edit the number on the line indicating the number of seconds the slider will auto-advance. I typically choose 8 as it gives people time to look, read, and decide, and it isn't too annoying.
Kevin Deldycke has further instructions and the code is also stored on Pastebin for reference and usage.
Now, let's look at some things you need to know about using the Twenty-Eleven Showcase Slider.
Using the Twenty-Eleven Showcase Slider
Posts are added to the Twenty-Eleven Showcase Slider by setting the Post Visibility to Stick this post to the front page.
The Showcase template file has a conditional tag post query that tests to see if the post is sticky. If it is, it displays it at the top of the front page. If there is more than one, it switches the display to the slider showcasing the sticky posts.
The Twenty-Eleven Showcase page template file also tests for a featured image, then applies a test for size.
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Warner Brothers is facing a federal lawsuit for using two feline-themed Internet memes in a video game without their creators' permission. The authors of "Keyboard Cat" and "Nyan Cat" have sued the media giant arguing that the game Scribblenauts, published by WB Games, infringes their copyrights and trademarks. The game's developer, 5th Cell, is also named in the lawsuit.
Keyboard Cat is a YouTube video uploaded in 2007. It shows a man's cat supposedly playing music on a keyboard. Nyan Cat is featured in an extremely irritating video that was uploaded to YouTube in 2011. As the complaint describes it, Nyan Cat is "a character with a cat's face and a body resembling a horizontal breakfast bar with pink frosting sprinkled with light red dots" that "flies across the screen, leaving a stream of exhaust in the form of a bright rainbow in its wake."
Both videos went viral and racked up tens of millions of downloads. The creators of the memes have both registered for trademark protection. At some point, 5th Cell allegedly added the characters to Scribblenauts, a series of games for the Nintendo DS and other platforms.
The two cat meme creators teamed up to sue Warner Brothers and 5th Cell. "Defendants have used 'Nyan Cat' and 'Keyboard Cat,' even identifying them by name, to promote and market their games, all without plaintiffs' permission and without any compensation to plaintiffs," they charge.
Warner Brothers is charged with both copyright and trademark infringement. The case will be litigated in the Central District of California, which includes Hollywood. We contacted Warner Brothers for comment but have not received a response.
Update: Christopher Torres, one of the plaintiffs, created the original Nyan Cat animation. However, he did not set the animation to music and upload it to YouTube, as the original version of this story implied. That was done by another individual. The story has been updated accordingly.


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Today's Music: Warren Zevon – Poor Poor Pitiful Me
This probably takes place about 18 years ago, when I was still cooking for a living. On a Tuesday off, me and a few coworkers drove up to Hunter Mountain in my old standard transmission Explorer.
Hunter Mountain isn't a great mountain. They have the largest snowmaking system in the world (at least, according to their commercials), because they don't get enough natural snow reliably to open every year.
Another thing about Hunter: the main slope faces east. That means that the sun beats down on the slopes all day until noon, when the sun creeps over the peak and the temperature drops.
And all the melted snow refreezes.
Into sheets of ice.
Hunter isn't going to win any awards for quality of snow, length of runs, or even value of food at the lodge.
But if you want to learn to ski ice and crud like nobodies business, Hunter is the place for you.
The refrozen trails get so slick (unless they're rutted), and so fast that the only way to ski them is to commit totally to your edges and turn fast on all the shaved ice on the trail edges.
I've seen my life flash before my eyes so many times in my learning days at Hunter that it's more familiar to me than the opening of a Star Trek episode. Any of them. (Hey, I have pride. Just no shame.)
So It's me and two or three coworkers. I'm the only one who's skied there before, so after they get settled on their gear, I do a few runs with them (look out for ice), give them some tips (No really. look out for ice!), we set a time to meet later for lunch (At the bottom, past all the ice), and off I go.
I ski well. I'm moving at or above my comfort level, I'm nailing my turns (as far as I know – lessons were still in my future), and enjoying the feeling of my smooth, supple grace. Think Dorothy Hamill in fluffy padded pants.
I'm tearing down the hill. And here's what happened from two perspectives.
What I think happened:
I've got my head tucked down as I tear into the bottom of the trail, which starts to flatten a bit near the bottom. My weight is forward over my skis, knees are bent and I'm flying. I look at the terrain up ahead. My weight shifts. I feel exhilaration as I feel my ski edges bite into the ice. My knees straighten and shift as I set up for my next turn.
My weight comes down.
The edges bite.
I duck my head lower as I pass through the cloud from a snow gun.
I shoot into a slighter sharper down grade.
My leg slips out from under me. The other ski chatters against the ice, tip skewing wildly from side to side…
*insert a moment of freedom from gravity, body arcing gracefully through the ether*
Yard sale. Skis here…polls there…Guap all over the hill…
A few moments later, the ringing clears from my head. A small child skis to a perfect stop and asks if I need help.
Little bastard.
I finally regain my equipment and stand up, to feel a sharp pain in my lower chest. One of the mountain staff does a quick check.
Yep. Broken rib.
Now to remind you, I'm not a bad skier. Not great, but not bad. So I shuffle my butt down to the lodge, trying to figure out what just happened. I find my friends down there.
Me – Dude! I just got railed by the hill! Broke my damn rib.
Them – Ouch. What happened?
Me – It was the trail from hell! Chewed me up and spit me out.
Me – You've gotta come down it with me!
So we trundle back to the top (pro tip – trundling is hard with a broken rib), and ski back down. For obvious reasons, I'm going much more slowly this time, and I can see the environment much more clearly. Which means I can see…
What Really Happened:
I've got my head tucked down as I tear into the bottom of the trail, which starts to flatten a bit near the bottom. My weight is forward over my skis, knees are bent and I'm flying. I look at the terrain up ahead. My weight shifts. I feel exhilaration as I feel my ski edges bite into the ice. My knees straighten and shift as i set up for my next turn.
My weight comes down.
The edges bite.
I duck my head lower as I pass through the cloud from a snow gun.
(slow it down, here it comes…)
I didn't tuck my head low enough.
Tiny flecks of jet propelled ice stab at the exposed skin on my face. The stinging is shocking, as is the cold.
I tuck my head down further twisting it away from the pain.
And as so often happens, the body follows the head
I turn my head so far over that it pulls me off one ski and unbalances me so badly that there's no way to stay up on the other.
Yard sale.
Maybe I'm not such a good skier after all…
Postscript: Driving a standard transmission involves stepping heavily on the clutch frequently to shift gears. When driving to Hunter mountain from NYC in a standard transmission vehicle, bring friends who can drive a stick.
Otherwise it will be a very long and painful drive home.
Post Postcript: There is nothing that can be done for a broken rib other than binding the chest. It will heal in a few weeks, and the pain will lessen. The pain of your doctor laughing at you when you tell him the story will fade more slowly.
Post Post Postscript: After you survive the night at work, cooking, lifting, pushing, etc, you will be in even more pain. A beer will help (if you aren't on medication). And if you tell any story other than the truth for what happened, you may even drink for free.
Otherwise, well, see about the pain of being laughed at above.


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That would be so nice Vickie, as I am hoping to use the hori hori knife to dig out the thistles which are invasive in Pennsylvania.
Thank you. I assume you are a family business judging by the picture on your site, and it is so nice to get a personal response to my order.
I am glad that I found a source for quality garden tools. I simply do not know where to find garden tools that are not "made in China," and that will not immediately fall apart. (I realize it's not really China's fault; it is the fault of our manufacturers that do not demand better quality). I especially am glad am to see that you have a few Japanese garden tools available. However, even in Japan, they are going the way of the U.S., and they are sacrificing quality for price and more and more things are being made in China, less in Japan. Now to the point of my e-mail: I would like to see a wider selection of quality-made garden tools.
i was very happy to find your site. it has been very hard for me to find the tree wrap around here. i have looked at home depot, lowes and poor boys, and valley view. finally gave up. I have some new trees that need it to keep the rabbits from eating the bark. i have thei one really special tree, it is a dawn redwood. When my bother gave it to me , ( he didn't know what it was ) it was in a pot and about 1 foot tall. i have transplanted it into the grown after doing a lot of research on it. It had s grown to 7 feet tall since may. It has a rich history. look up dawn redwood on the Internet. I had to put a fence around it because the rabbits were eating the bark..
it is so beautiful and i look at it almost as a family member..LOL
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Hi Vickie:
Just wanted to let you know I received the trake Wednesday, it was waiting for me when I got home. Thank you so much. And thank you for the pen and the magnet as well. And the booklet on the gardens of the Northeast. If I get to Washington/Oregon I will definitely have to visit them, they look fabulous!!!
Thanks ever so! Gosh, it's nice to receive a confirmation from a caring human being! I'll be doing more business with you, I'm sure.
Thank you for the nice and personalized note -- a rare treat. My
longtime favorite garden tool has been a short-handled weeder that I
got from Smith and Hawaken years back. It is wearing out and I found
that with the changes in S&H, they no longer carry that tool (and, in
fact, seem to have deemphasized tools all together). This led me to
you on-line. These Japanese hoes appear to take a similar appraoch
(they were probably the progenitor to the S&H weeder). I look forward
to getting them and having a chance to try them in the garden. I am
glad to have found your site and appreciate your quick service and
My family is addicted to that tool. We seem to misplace it alot and when this happens, no one wants to do any garden work.
Be blessed,
Got my package yesterday. Great job and very quick. I love this tool. I have given several to my gardening friends. I have a back problem so it doubles as a crutch to help me get up off the ground. I got a little nervous when I saw the box ...It was open on one end. It looked as though it was taped securely but I think someone might have opened it. All were intact however.
Thank you for the quick service,
Thank you for your personal note. It was very nice to receive. I am a new gardener but things are finally coming together for me and I have one project after another in mind. Last year I invested for the first time in good tools, the felco pruner and the hori hori knife and I could not believe how much more joyful the work became for me. So I looked through your tools and over a period of time really studied them to decide which I really needed to buy. I wasn't quite sure. So I am really glad to hear that I chose some very good ones. I am really glad you let me know this.
Thank you also for using a flat rate box and saving me some money. That happened to run through my mind at one point in the process. I appreciate the trouble you went through.
Keep up the good work on your website. It is a good one, with important information and a personal touch.
Rec'd the second Trake....these are gifts (I discovered this tool years ago at LL Bean and I love it). The gloves are new to me and they are fantastic. I never wore gloves before as they are baggy, the dirt gets in the cuffs, etc. They were a bother for a get-down-on-your-knees-and-dig gardener like me. I wore them for 3 hours and never felt the need to rip then off! I may actually be able to grow modest fingernails!
Thanks for the notification, Vickie. That trowel was my all-time-favorite gardening tool until my husband ran over it with the tractor. My Mom (Helen Dykhoff, another one of your customers) gave me mine, so now I'm replacing it and giving one to a couple friends.
Merry Christmas!
Dear Vickie,
I cannot believe how fast my Hori Hori knives arrived!! I ordered them from my brother-in-laws' house in South Carolina late Friday night, and they arrived this morning (Monday)! WOW!! Package almost beat me home!
many thanks, Ann Murphy
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Blame it all on Razor Shines
This Hindenburg of a baseball season on the South Side is all Razor Shines' fault, if you ask me. Because ever since Shines replaced Joey Cora as third-base coach last season, the White Sox haven't been the same team.
Yeah, that explains it. Razor Shines.
Hey, why not? We've already blamed the owner, the general manager, the farm director, the manager, the hitting coach, the pitching coach - just about everybody except the groundskeeper and the scoreboard operator, it seems. So why should Razor Shines get a free pass here?
Strange, but the ones who are really to blame for the Bummer of '07 have been way too quiet, gotten off way too easy.
Yeah, the players themselves.
Take a look at the roster. See any All-Stars there? Not a one. Other than Mark Buehrle, Jon Garland, Bobby Jenks, A.J. Pierzynski and Jim Thome, no veteran player has been as much as mediocre thus far, for godsakes.
Blame Ozzie Guillen and Ken Williams all you want. If they're part of the team, then they're part of the problem. But the massive collapse isn't about a manager who can't motivate his players or a general manager who can't rebuild a bullpen. No, the nose-dive is about 25 well-fed, well-paid, well-trained players who haven't gotten it done for whatever reasons, pure and simple.
What else can you say about a team that Cubs leadoff man Alfonso Soriano outscored by himself in a three-game series except that it needs a shake-up in, say, the next 30 minutes if not sooner.
"Yes," Williams promised changes even before the North Siders brought out the brooms at The Cell on Sunday afternoon. "Something's gotta happen. I'm tired of watching this."
So long, Mark Buehrle? You, too, Jermaine Dye?
Until then, just once I'd like to hear a "We stink like rotten eggs, and there's no excuse for it" out of the mouths of any of these guys, in no particular order:
Alex Cintron. Him and his anorexic .258 on-base percentage.
Jose Contreras. Fifteen starts, five wins, 4.63 ERA, 9 million bucks.
Jermaine Dye. His .230 batting average is 44 points lower than his career mark.
Darin Erstad. Even before he was hurt again, his .311 on-base percentage wasn't exactly Ichiro stuff.
Toby Hall. Five hits, zero RBI, 28 at-bats, $85 per diem.
Tadahito Iguchi. Word is he wants to play on the West Coast next season. Seems like his head is already there at times.
Paul Konerko. Hasn't been this bad since Jerry Manuel was the manager years ago.
Rob Mackowiak. Seven extra-base hits, 162 at-bats.
Mike MacDougal. Four years ago, he was an All-Star selection. Now he has a 7.23 ERA.
Juan Uribe. Looks fat, plays lazy. Is his head in the Dominican Republic, where he claims to have been the victim of an extortion attempt?
Matt Thornton. He was supposed to be one of the best left-handed relievers in the game, but his fastball is straighter than John McCain right now.
Javier Vazquez. Score two runs, the $12.5 million man allows three. Score five, he coughs up six. Not even Lindsay Lohan is this big of a tease.
Mind you, these guys aren't scrubs. This is the nucleus of the 2005 World Series champion team. Every one of them had experienced various degrees of success in his career.
As Williams put it, "I don't need to address this team. These guys are veteran guys. They've been through the rigors of the season. They've had a lot of success in their careers. I have coaches and a manager who have talked until they're blue in the face and have given everyone the information. They've made efforts to motivate. They've pushed and prodded in every way, every shape."
As downright pathetic as the Sox have been lately, there remains a window of opportunity for them to get back in the race in the next three weeks. Check out the schedule. Last-place Baltimore Orioles, eight games. Last-place Kansas City Royals, four games. Fourth-place Tampa Bay Devil Rays, three games. Third-place Minnesota Twins, three games. The competition is so soft that Huggies wants to sponsor it.
But for the season to be saved - that is, if it can be saved at all - Williams needs to work his magic and work it now.
"I wish I knew. I wish I knew, really," K-Will said in a search for answers. "The thought of trading people who just helped you win the World Series two years ago makes my stomach turn."
Hand them a mirror and it will hurt a lot less, I say.
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'What would you do' Te'o tells Couric
NEW YORK - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o admitted to Katie Couric he answered questions about his "dead," online girlfriend even after he received a call Dec. 6 from a woman posing as the fake person.
Te'o also maintained he played no part in the hoax.
Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, the All-American said he was convinced the woman he knew as Lennay Kekua died in September. Te'o claims he never met Kekua in person but developed a serious relationship with her through phone calls and electronic messages.
"Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said in an interview to air Thursday on Couric's syndicated talk show. A segment of the interview with Te'o and his parents was broadcast Wednesday on "Good Morning America."
"Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?" Te'o said.
The Heisman Trophy finalists made at least three references to his girlfriend in media interviews after Dec. 6, including during ESPN's Heisman presentation show on Dec. 8.
Te'o's father defended his son when Couric pointed out that many people don't believe the Irish star, suspecting he used the situation for personal gain.
"People can speculate about what they think he is. I've known him 21 years of his life. And he's not a liar. He's a kid," Brian Te'o said with tears in his eyes.
On Tuesday, the woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Te'o's supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.
Diane O'Meara told NBC's "Today" show that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating a fake woman called Lennay Kekua.
Te'o told ESPN last week that Tuiasosopo had contacted him to apologize for the hoax soon after Deadpsin.com broke the news with a long report. Te'o told ESPN that not until Tuiasosopo confessed did he finally, fully realize Kekua did not exist.
Tuiasosopo has not commented on the scheme.
The top FBI agent in northern Indiana said authorities don't believe a crime was committed, so there is no investigation.
"I don't think there was any financial harm to Mr. Te'o," said Robert Ramsey, FBI supervisory special agent for northern Indiana. "There was no federal violation regarding the Internet hoax perpetrated against Mr. Te'o."
If there had been a crime, it would fall under federal jurisdiction, he said.